Afternoon nuggets

• Controller Laura Chick says her staff has discovered that vendors owe the city close to $500,000 in outstanding payments.
• Staffers at the Los Angeles Alternative are muttering that this week's CityBeat cover looks eerily familiar.
• Morgan Wells is the new music publicity and promotions director at KCRW. Debbie Adler is heading to NYU's Stern School of Business.
• Alumnus Rip Rense posted a column calling for replacing the leadership of Venice High School.
• Not even I am watching the Stanley Cup finals on NBC.
• Neil Kramer is mistaken for "Kirk" from "Gilmore Girls" at the IHOP on Wilshire.
• New satellite imagery of Southern California via Curbed LA.